Pocket-book-engaging means.



C. & E. WITRENS.

POCKET BOOK ENGAGING MEANS APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1917.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

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CI-IABLES WI'IRENS ANI) ELIZABETH WITRENS, OF STAUNTON, ILLINOIS.

`Specification of Letters Patent.

POCKET-BOOK-,ENGAGING MEANS.

, Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

yApplication led March 17, 1917. Serial No. 155,441.

To allw'ltom z't-may conce/11nd.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES VITRENS,

a citizen of theUnited States, resident of Staunton, county of Macoupin, and State lof Illinois, and I, ELIZABETH WVITRENs, a citizen of the 'United States, resident of Staunton, county of Macoupin, and State of Illinois, have invented certain` new and useful Improvements in Pocket Book Engaging Means, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pocket cases, and means for securing the same Within the pocket of a garment.

The principal object is in the provision of a special pocketbook having parts which are cngageable within fixed portions of the pockets of a garment, whereby they may be held securely therein, it being possible to open and dispense the contents of the pocketbook without removing the same from the pocket.

A further object of the invention is to provide such means in forms applicable to any existing garment, which may be applied by any tailor or seamstress and which in no wise interferes with the appearance or ordinary use of the garment.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of a coat showing the application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmental front view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view partially in section, the section being taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and p Fig. 4 is a fragmlental sectional View taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Attached to garments of common form, preferably on the inner side portion 10, is a pocket 11 of any preferred strong fabric having inner and outer walls, respectively 14 and 15 of any desired depth and size, the pocket being secured by rows of stitches 17 disposed as usual around the edges, which may be doubled, as at the upper corners 18.

Firmly secured to the inner wall 14 of the pocket are a pair of parallel disposed plate strips 22 having a raised portion 23 receptive of flat longitudinal extensions 25 formed at the side edges of the pocketbook 2G., the same slidably tting neatly below the elements 23 and by which the pocketbook is held against ordinary disengagement.

The flap. 28 of the pocketbook may be.

turned upward so that access to its contents may be had without removing the pocketbook from the side element in an obvious manner. q

Further security is provided whereby the pocketbook is prevented from being withdrawn from the pocket by means of the perforation 30 formed centrally through its lower edge so as not to coniict with the contents or the space between its compartments and engageable within the perforation 3() is a post or stem 31 rigidly attached on the outer end of a spring 32 secured to the wall 14 of the pocket, as will best be seen in Figs. 2 and 8, and by mea-ns of which the pocketbook is held from being withdrawn upwardly except the spring be raised from the interior of the pocket.

Thus it will be seen that a novel and effective type of pocketbook and security holder has been provided.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pocket, of a pocketbook having side elements extending from opposite edges and a pair of oppositely disposed guides receptive of said side elements secured within said pocket.

2. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a pocket and a pocketbook having longitudinal plate-like elements eX- tending from both sides thereof, of a pair of oppositely disposed slideways permanently engaged within said .pocket, said slide-ways being receptive of said side elements, and means in said pocket adapted to press said pocketbook against the inside lining.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pocket and a pocketbook having oppositely disposed extending edges, of a pair of oppositely disposed fixed guide-ways secured to the inner side of said pocket, said guide-ways being engageable with said extending edges, said pocketbook having a perforation centrally along its lower edge, a resilient member secured to the lining of said pocket below said pocketbook, and a pin on the outer free end of said resilient member, said pin being adapted to engage in the mentioned perforation.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pocketand a pocketbook having extending flat edges, and having "a `perforation in itsbottom, of-a pair of oppositely disposed longitudinal guide elements interiorly afiXed in said pocket and adapted to engage with said extending edges, a spring attached in said pocket adapted to engage with theouter surface of said pocketbook, and a pin carried by the free end of said spring, said pin being adapted to engage in the perforation of said pocketbook. H

5. In a device of the class described, the combinationl with a pocket having inner and outer elements, of'a pocket book having plate-like side extensions, means formed with said inner element engageable with saidV plate-like extensions, and means allowing the flap of the pocket book to be opened, and means including a feature near the lower edge of said pocketbook whereby it may be maintained positively-within said pocket;-k *Y 1 InY testimony-whereof we have afliXed our signatures.- Y f K CHARLES VVI-TRENS.'y

ELIZABETH WITRENS. Y

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